The Youth Poet Laureate of the Southern United States, Alora Young, tells the story of her family in verse “because Black girlhood is eternall…
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On Nov. 16, John Lewis — along with his collaborators, co-author Andrew Aydin and artist Nate Powell — won the National Book Award for Young P…
Vodka Yonic features a rotating cast of female writers from around the world sharing stories that are alternately humorous, sobering, intellec…
Mary Laura Philpott is neither a novelist nor a journalist, but she makes her living as a writer anyway. In fact, studying Philpott's work cou…
In 2010, Adam Ross launched his first novel, Mr. Peanut, with an arresting opening line: “When David Pepin first dreamed of killing his wife, …
"I should note that I don't consider myself a literary critic," Diann Blakely once wrote in an essay for Chapter 16 about Eleanor Ross Taylor.…